Federal Grant Helps Comanche Housing Authority Make Vital Repairs to Native Homes

A $1 million federal grant will help the Comanche Nation Housing Authority (CNHA) meet home repair needs of tribal members in five Oklahoma counties. 

“People call us every day with emergencies,” Nora Sovo, deputy director of CNHA, told Native News Online. “It’s the busiest program that we have. There’s never enough money to fix all the repairs that people’s homes need, and that’s why we have to limit our tribally funded programs to emergency repairs only.”

For the eighth year in a row, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded a federal grant to CNHA, which is pitching in $333,250 of its own funding to the program. The funding helps the organization move beyond emergency home repairs to make vital repairs, Sovo said, such as a new roof. 

By Andrew Kennard

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